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How To Handle A Stubborn Aging Parent Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Attorney, AgingParents.com and AgingInvestor.com Is your aging parent really difficult? Is this driving you crazy when your parent refuses all your helpful suggestions? If so, you’re not alone! Being in the consulting…

Three Tips For Talking To Aging Parents About Costs Of Future Care by Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder Law Attorney Can you imagine your aging parents losing their independence? It might be the conversation they don’t want to have with you.…

This really happened. If you had this 91 year old client, what would you do? Emma liked to play the sweepstakes. But her memory was starting to decline. A lot. When it came to her bank account, she forgot…

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Are You Worried That You May Have To Be Financially Responsible For Your Aging Parents? If you don’t know what to expect as your parents grow older and you’ve never thought about what can go wrong, you…

Hello again, from Carolyn and Mikol at AgingParents.com! Wishing all of you a beautiful season. Here’s a subject that many of us are involved in right now. Millions of us Boomers are caring for an aging parent. Some take…

Holiday get togethers with family are notoriously stressful, especially when an aging parent or grandparent has a problem with remembering things. It may be diagnosed as dementia or not, but you can tell that your aging parent has memory loss…

Most days at I get a call from an adult child of an elder, asking me about shady dealings over a parent’s finances. Sometimes it’s the niece, grandson, or other family member the caller is worried about. Sometimes it’s the…

Hello again We are always fans of those who have figured out how to age well and we always want to learn a few things from them. Here’s a fine example: The Philadelphia Enquirer recently published a piece about Murray Shusterman,…

This one shocked me. Here at AgingParents.com we’ve been hearing elder abuse tales for a long time, but I was stunned when I heard this. A family of 3 siblings has been worried about their widowed father, who lives alone…

With retirement and aging, older adults can find themselves with a lot of free time and not many ideas of what to do. Some alternatives to keep the mind busy and active are volunteering, starting another business, embarking on…

We have some thoughts about emerging solutions to an aging part of our population, the LGBT community. For the longest time, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community got little other than negative press and highlighting of controversial issues. But…

Hello again. Carolyn and Mikol here. We wanted to share a success story with you. It’s about Gerry, an older gentleman whose wife had health issues and could no longer accompany him going out. When they moved to a…

This is a real situation, all too common. Three brothers are engaged in pitched battle over their mother’s care and how to pay for it. Mom is severely demented and can’t care for herself independently. She had long term care…

Hello again, We hope you are doing well. We’ve been talking to Mikol’s Mom, Alice a lot lately about her house. Now that she’s 91, she’s considering that a large sprawling house is just too much. Sometimes, an elder stays…

"Thank you for the article on the "grey area". It validated what I am currently going through with my Mother. It is so painful for me to go back and forth with her behavior. I just don't know what to do about the estranged sister who has exploited well over $50K of my mother's savings and my Mothers admitted " lack of "will power" to say no to her." Robert
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Rhonda is a 91-year-old widow and lives independently. She has a few million in investments and has planned well for retirement. Her two sons are busy and leave her to make decisions about her money independently. What Rhonda’s sons didn’t…Read more ›

For most adult children with aging parents, there is often the dilemma of whether or not they should be involved with monitoring their aging parents spending habits. You want to honor their independence, but what if they show signs of…Read more ›

Is your aging parent one of the many battling Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia and taking medication? Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a Silicon Valley, California-based geriatrician, recently quoted in an article in The Mercury News, strongly advises against elders…Read more ›

Does it seem impossible that a person can reach his last days and look back without any regrets at all? What does it take? We all seem to regret our mistakes and some of our choices in life. At AgingParents.com, we…Read more ›